Declaration [October 28, 160 AD]
Census declaration likely of a household of renters; the declarant was probably Amois, referred to on the back, who lived in a different house
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Census declaration of a household at Oxyrhynchus TM 22263Oxyrhynchos160 CE
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A census declaration from Oxyrhynchus for the census of year 23 of Antoninus Pius, listing people registered in a house, including Dionysios, Pausiris also called Ptollas and his wife Thaisous. It closes with an oath by the emperor, dated 28 October 160, copies addressed to the strategos Phokion and the royal scribe Domitius Apollonius, and a note of filing; the back names the declaration as that of Amois and his children.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[...] [for the house-by-house census of the past 23rd year of Antoninus] Caesar [the lord, the] house and courtyard [belonging to me] [...] [in the quarter] [...] [in which are registered:]
Dionysios also called Komedo(?) [...] [registered] and another in the [same] quarter [...]
Dionysios his son, mother [...]nat, in the quarter of Myrobalanos [...]
Pausiris also called Ptollas [...] [registered] in the Shepherds' quarter [...]
Didymos [...] son of Herakleides, in the quarter [...]
Wife: Thaisous [...] [mother] [...] [wife of Pau]siris also called Ptollas [...]
And I swear by Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius [that the foregoing is true] and that nothing is falsified, or [may I be liable to the oath. Year 24 of Imperator] Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, Hathyr 1. [...]
To Phokion, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome [...]
To Domitius Apollonius, royal scribe.
Diogenes P[...]
Filed.
To the laographos of Temgenouthis [...]
[...] 32
[verso]
Census declaration, Oxyrhynchus, of Amois and his children.
The occupants appear to be residents registered in other quarters, probably renters; the declarant Amois, named only on the back, likely lived elsewhere. Temgenouthis is an Oxyrhynchus city quarter, and the laographos was the official keeping the poll-tax register.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Census Declaration). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.col.10.262
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